GDSS Philadelphia
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The GDSS Philadelphia was an orbital command station that acted as the primary command and control center for GDI forces worldwide prior to its destruction at the beginning of the Third Tiberium War. While the station's function was strategic command, with global command posts interfacing with its EVA unit, it could also provide limited tactical support. It was capable of deploying drop pods and had orbit-to-surface weapons.
[edit] History
The Philadelphia was completed prior to the Second Tiberium War and acted as the central command center for GDI forces. One of its more controversial aspects was the barring of anyone suffering Tiberium poisoning from set foot on the station. During the Second Tiberium War General James Solomon coordinated GDI efforts to combat the resurgent Brotherhood, often making use of the station's offensive capabilities to assist his ground commanders. It was also in a transmission to the Philadelphia that Kane announced his return to GDI, where he engaged in a short war of worlds with Solomon.
During the Firestorm Crisis increased ion particle activity in the upper atmosphere severed links between Earth and orbital assets, including the Philadelphia. GDI global command was assumed by Southern Cross until the conditions passed.
Following the war, there was an effort to move control of the ion cannon satellite network onto a space based platform such as the Philadelphia. However, this would have required building another space station at tremendous cost. Instead GDI elected to upgrade the Philadelphia to handle some of the control tasks but kept the rest of it planetside at Goddard Space Center. By the Third Tiberium War the station was in the final stages of its upgrades and ground support was provided by a Chilean spaceport in Blue Zone 8.
In preparation for a new war, General Kilian Qatar planned a strike against the station when it hosted the annual GDI Energy Summit in 2047 to kill GDI's top political and military leaders. After disabling GDI's A-SAT defenses, a nuclear ICBM launched from a secret Egyptian facility struck the station on the fifth day of the summit. The station was destroyed with 1,047 dead. Significant debris fell into an African red zone.
The destruction of Philadelphia and coordinated global attacks allowed the Brotherhood to overrun several Blue Zones and GDI command centers in the opening stages of the war.
[edit] Alternate History
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Peaceful, isn't it?
The following is based on the Nod campaign for Tiberian Sun and might contradict canonical campaigns, though non-contradictory elements may be useful as "flavor" material or semi-canon.
Please discuss any issues on the talk page.
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Nod captured Hammerfest and deployed three TEL-launched ICBMs. The missiles launched and destroyed Philadelphia. The deployment was time constrained as within three orbits Philadelphia would have acquired the targeting data needed to strike the ICBMs from orbit.
